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US supreme court rejects MyPillow chief’s bid to dodge $1.3bn lawsuit

Mike Lindell and Donald Trump in the White House Rose Garden in March 2020.
Mike Lindell and Donald Trump in the White House Rose Garden in March 2020. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

The defamation lawsuit that voting machine company Dominion is pursuing against the MyPillow chief executive, Mike Lindell, can proceed after the US supreme court rejected the prominent Donald Trump supporter’s appeal aiming to block the case.

Dominion Voting Systems in February 2021 filed a $1.3bn lawsuit accusing Lindell of promoting the debunked conspiracy theory that the company’s machines manipulated vote counts in favor of Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election that ousted Trump from the Oval Office.

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